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Like those of other Prosopis species, Screwbean Mesquite has nutritious seedpods that can be eaten. The Pimas cooked the pods in dirt-covered pits over intervals of a few days. Mesquite is a traditional Native American food source, being used to make meal, cakes and syrup. Used as a staple food for centuries by desert dwellers, this high protein meal contains good quantities of calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron and zinc, and is rich in the amino acid lysine as well. Mesquite is high in fiber, moderate in sugar, and 8% protein. It has a sweet, rich, molasses-like flavor with a hint of caramel which blends well into smoothies or other drinks, especially those made with cacao and maca. The fruits may be used as a coffee substitute.
A Mule Deer doe has found some thing especially delicious, from the expression on her face. Crunchy and nutritious!
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2014 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Araneus diadematus with partially digested prey.
Once a prey item has been subdued by the spiders venomous bite, digestion is initiated outside the body. The spider regurgitates digestive enzymes onto its prey which in turn starts to dissolve the body. When the prey is mostly liquefied, the spider uses its chelicerae to break down the tissue further before sucking up the nutritious soup. Feeding behaviour does differ between spider families. An example is the Thomisids, crab spiders which have none or maybe a few cheliceral teeth. In that case, they make a bite and the enzymes are regurgitated into the bite area and the insides of the prey are dissolved and sucked out, leaving a intact shell.
Cherries are a very tasty and nutritious fruit. They contain many vitamins, minerals and compounds which have many health benefits. Some studies have shown cherries are especially beneficial in fighting some cancers. They contain a number of anti-oxidants which help "mop up" free radicals. Free radicals are unstable molecules which cause damage to cells as the circulating molecule attacks other healthy cells. Damage to cells caused by free radicals have been shown to speed up the aging process.
The nutrients and compounds found in cherries give the following health benefits..
Help fight cancer
Aid in prevention of heart disease
Relieve Pain of Arthritis, Gout, Headaches
Ease the symptoms associated with Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Provide a healthy and safe way to produce melatonin
Improve physiological and mental functions
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National Cereal Day March 7
Cereal is celebrated and eaten today! Cereal, in general, may be a name for any grain, such as wheat, barley, oats, or corn. But since the end of the nineteenth century in America, cereal has usually meant breakfast cereal—now the most popular breakfast food in the country. It gained popularity at that time, as a healthier alternative to other foods. Until the 1860s, breakfast was dominated by eggs, bacon, and sausage. Reformers began preaching that eating too much meat was both physically and spiritually harmful, and cereal was looked at as a nutritious remedy of sorts.
The first American cooked cereals were corn-mush porridges that had been adapted from Native Americans. Quaker Oats, made from hulled oats, was created in 1877. Cream of Wheat appeared in 1894. The first cold cereal was invented by Dr. James Caleb Jackson, and was made of hard, bland bran nuggets that had to be soaked overnight and were hard to digest. It was called granula.
John Kellogg, head of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, gave grains to his patients, and then created packaged cereals. He first called his cereal granola, but then changed its name to Granose, as it was too close in name to Jackson's granula. He later made Granose flakes. In the 1890s, John Kellogg, along with his brother William, made boiled wheat and inadvertently left it out overnight and found it was stale the next morning. They then rolled it and saw it made flakes. They tried it with corn and saw the same thing happened. Their new creation was Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, one of the most popular and enduring breakfast cereals.
After suffering a nervous breakdown, Charles William Post went to Kellogg's sanitarium in 1893. Subsequently, he started his own breakfast foods company, and in 1897 started selling Grape-Nuts, made of wheat and malted barley. He started selling Elijah Manna in 1904, but after the name was criticized, he started calling them as Post Toasties in 1906.
In 1892, Henry Perky, a lawyer from Denver, traveled to Watertown, New York, and along with William Ford, discovered a process to press wheat shreds into biscuits. He called them Shredded Wheat. They were bought out by the National Biscuit Company in 1928, a company now known as Nabisco.
Wheaties were created accidentally in 1921. A Minneapolis health theorist name Mennenberg spilled gruel on a hot stove and found it made a crisp wheat flake. Washburn Crosby Company, later known as General Mills and the subsequent identity to the radio and television station WCCO, bought the rights and introduced Wheaties in 1924. General Mills introduced a corn-puff cereal called Kix in 1937, and a ring-shaped oat cereal named Cheerioats in 1941; their name was changed to Cheerios in 1945.
Shredded Ralston may not be a familiar breakfast cereal name today, but that is the original name of Wheat Chex, introduced by the Ralston Purina Company of St. Louis in 1935. They were followed by Rice Chex in 1950, and by Corn Chex in 1958. It wasn’t soon after that people started using these cereals as a snack mix, which today with many variations and ingredients, is known as “Chex Mix”.
The first sweetened cereal, Ranger Joe Popped Wheat Honnie, was introduced in 1939, and the idea of cereal as solely a health food changed. This began the trend of sweetened cereals being marketed to children. Radio and television ads began being used to popularize cereal, and cartoon characters were introduced. Some cereals were also named after cartoon or movie characters, such as Count Chocula and Frankenberry, and who could forget Tony the Tiger with “They’re G-r-r-eat!” for the Frosted Flakes cereal.
In the 1960s, breakfast cereals began being criticized for having little nutritional value on their own, and vitamins and minerals began being added. Sugar in children's cereals was also cut back. There also was an increase in interest in natural grain cereals—those without cane sugar or additives. Although, a lot of them did have honey, brown sugar, raisins, or other dried fruit.
About half of Americans start their day with a bowl of cereal. Annual sales of breakfast cereal are 7.7 billion dollars, and 2.7 billion boxes of cereal are sold each year. With so much cereal being eaten, it is only fitting that there is a day to celebrate it!
How to Observe
Celebrate the day by eating cereal! Try sampling some of the best breakfast cereals of all time. Eat cereal plain, have it with milk, or use it to make something, such as Rice Krispies Treats. If there ever was a day to eat cereal for every meal, this is it!
Here, Lloyd gets ready to have some Corn Flakes which Mr. Wu has brought to the table. But guess who else has come with his bowl!
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my Corona-vocation will be documenting wildness on my five acres in West Central Florida... nothing serious...just a witness to the beauty.
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durian, smelly but incredibly nutritious fruit, sold at a local market. considered the king of fruits by experts!
The Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker resides in eastern North America while the Red-shafted Flicker resides in the western part. Yellow-shafted Flickers are yellow under the tail and underwings, and have yellow shafts on their primaries where as with the Red-shafted it's red. Both species have a grey cap, a beige face and a red chevron shaped bar at the nape of their neck. Yellow-shafted males have a black moustache while the Red-shafted's moustache is red. Females of both species look essentially the same as the male except they lack the moustache and are typically slightly smaller in size.
Flickers are a medium to large sized woodpecker, measuring 11 - 14 inches (28 - 36 cm) in length with a 17 - 21 inch (42 - 54 cm) wingspan.
Northern Flickers are the only woodpecker that frequently feeds on the ground, probing with their beak, it also sometimes catches insects in flight. Although they eat fruits, berries, seeds and nuts, their primary food is insects. Ants alone can make up 45% of their diet. Flickers often go after ants underground (where the nutritious larvae live), hammering at the soil the way other woodpeckers drill into wood. Their tongues can dart out 2 inches beyond the end of the bill to snare prey. As well as eating ants, flickers have a behavior called "anting", during which they use the acid from the ants to assist in preening, as it is useful in keeping them free of parasites.
Flickers may be observed in open habitats near trees, including woodlands, edges, yards, and parks. Northern birds sometimes migrate to the southern parts of their range; southern birds are often permanent residents.
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Spent the morning photographing a variety of (high school level) cafeteria lunches in Howard County, MD. The school system just won a pair of national awards for their attention to quality and nutrition.
I originally purchased a used 25MP PhaseOne camera to use for portraits. But getting gratuitous depth and detail on process and product shoots like this is an added bonus. And FWIW, this 8-bit jpeg (full-size, here) does not do the 16-bit .tif justice.
One of the most nutritious plants that were prepared for humans and other living animals - legumes. So abundant in protein, resistant starch, fiber, minerals, complex carbs and provides zero cholesterol... and the list won't stop here!
This is lima bean, aka butter bean. This bean has pleasant creamy texture. I usually eat black beans but for the taste, this lima is my top. I usually simmer in water until soft and sprinkle only a pinch of celtic salt before serve. This is just enough to bring out the flavor and the sweet taste (it'd be just wonderful without any salt). Great for healthy snack, adding to breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you don't eat beans, it's worth tasting lima bean. You may fall in love❤️
Dansk Hvidløg, Uge 20, Uggelhuse, Randers
Allium ursinum grow in leafy forests with nutritious bottom.
The plant blooms in May-June.
Most recently, it has been shown that the plant can also be used as a preservative as it has a very strong antibacterial effect. The researchers at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at Aarhus University's department in Årslev in Funen have shown great inhibitory effect on salmonella and listeria.
I made 2 giant fruit tarts with custard for my husband's "Goody Day" at his office. Unfortunately there were no leftovers so I didn't even get to taste it. I did not anticipate the glaze to be so difficult to photograph. I think I see myself in some of those blueberries.
The Pantanal has a plentiful amount of the hard Acuri and Bocaiuve fruit which the Macaw uses its strong bill to crack. These fruits are very nutritious.
Papilio troilus, Limenitis arthemis astyanax, and Papilio polyxenes
Edit: with Horace's Duskywing (Erynnis horatius) and Skipper species (Hesperiidae)
Wakulla County, Florida
My first attempt at trying to create a moody image, I'm quite pleased with the results. I'm new to photography and Photoshop so I'm finding it to be an interesting learning curve.
This was taken on a on a longish exposure and lit with an LED torch (waved it around) on an A4 black card backdrop.
The main problem was lighting the darker face without getting too much reflection/banding, and i don't want to use Photoshop too much yet.
Photoshop : there a a bad scratch on one eye (so tried to fix that), dust removal, darkened the cheekbone and grin lines, B&W and darkened background.
I wonder if this little rabbit dreams of green leaves instead of its usual winter fare - twigs and buds. You can see how many he has already clipped off, some half an inch in diameter. I watched him sniff at several before making a choice. It must be a nutritious diet because he looks healthy nearing the end of a long, cold winter.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
SN/NC: Bactris gasipaes, Arecaceae Family
Bactris gasipaes is a species of palm native to the tropical forests of South and Central America. It is well spread in these regions, where it is often cultivated by smallholders in agroforestry systems or more rarely, in monoculture. Common names include peach palm in English and chontaduro in Spanish. It is a long-lived perennial plant that is productive for 50 to 75 years on average. Its population has an important genetic diversity, leading to numerous fruits, colors, and qualities. The fruits are edible and nutritious but need to be cooked for 30 minutes to five hours. They also benefit many animals in the wild. Peach-palms are also cultivated for the heart of palm, and the trunk can make valuable timber. Bactris gasipaes, like most sea-island palms, grows erect, with a single slender stem or, more often, several stems that are up to eight inches (20 cm) thick, in a cluster; generally armed with stiff, black spines in circular rows from the base to the summit. There are occasional specimens with only a few spines. It can typically grow to 20 metres (66 ft) or taller . The leaves are pinnate, 3 metres (9.8 ft) long on a 1 metre (3.3 ft) long petiole. The fruit is a drupe with edible pulp surrounding the single seed, 4–6 cm long and 3–5 cm broad. The rind (epicarp) of the fruit can be red, yellow, or orange when the fruit is ripe, depending on the variety of the palm.
A pupunha é uma espécie de palmeira multicaule da família Arecaceae cujo fruto é conhecido por pupunha ou babunha. A espécie é nativa da região amazônica onde é conhecida popularmente pelos nomes pupunheira e pupunha-verde-amarela. Uma planta da família Arecaceae (antiga Palmae, da carnaúba, babaçu e açaí), dos quais se aproveitam diversos aspectos: frutos e palmito como alimento; palhas em cestaria e em cobertura de habitações; flores como tempero; estipe em artesanato e construções; e as amêndoas para extração de óleo.
Pode crescer até 20m, frutificando grandes cachos em cinco anos em condições naturais, reduzindo à metade o tempo em condições especiais de cultivo. Sendo há séculos consumida como alimento pelas populações nativas da América Central até a Floresta Amazônica."Pupunha" é oriundo do tupi pu'puña.
Os frutos alaranjados são ricos em proteínas, amidos e vitamina A, frequentemente consumidos depois de cozidos em água e sal, ou na forma de farinha ou óleo comestíveis. Contudo, também podem ser matéria-prima para a fabricação de compotas e geleias. Dos resíduos, faz-se ração animal.
Existe uma grande variedade de aves que se alimentam da pupunheira silvestre, principalmente as araras, os papagaios e os periquitos (Psittacidae), os quais, ocasionalmente, podem ser espécies endêmicas com risco de extinção.
No Brasil, essa planta é uma solução viável para a indústria palmiteira porque apresenta características agronômicas adequadas para a substituição, com vantagens, de outras palmeiras nativas, como o açaí (Euterpe oleraceae) e a juçara (Euterpe edulis), que são exploradas de forma extrativista e predatória e, por isso, apresentam restrições legais e risco de extinção. O mercado interno brasileiro de palmito é cerca de cinco vezes maior do que o externo, que, no entanto, apresenta uma demanda crescente, devido ao crescento uso do produto na culinária internacional. O cultivo da pupunha é economicamente importante também para a Costa Rica.
El Bactris gasipaes es un vegetal de la familia de las arecáceas (la de las palmeras). Se le conoce de forma común como pejibaye, pupuña, pipire, pijuayo, pixbae, chontaduro, cachipay, pifá, pibá, chima o tembe.
La planta llega a medir hasta 20 metros de alto, es nativa de las regiones tropicales y subtropicales de América. Se aprovecha su fruto, una drupa de gran valor alimentario, su madera y el cogollo tierno, que se cosecha para extraer palmito. En Colombia en la inmensa mayoría del país se le llama chontaduro. El Tambo, en el Departamento del Cauca, es el mayor productor de chontaduro en el país. Las temporadas de cosecha son, la primera entre enero y mayo, y la segunda entre agosto y noviembre. En la primera cosecha del año 2005 la región aportó unas seis mil toneladas, equivalentes al 50% de la producción nacional de chontaduro. Generalmente se come o se consume con sal y miel. En Panamá son muy populares y son abundantes en las tierras bajas, se le conoce con los nombres "pifá", "pibá" y "pixbae", de la palma se consume el fruto, que se cocina previamente en agua con sal y se expende en tiendas, mercados y kioscos. En la ciudad de Panamá es popularmente ofrecido por vendedores ambulantes, quienes pregonan su producto por las calles, esquinas y semáforos. Es común consumirlo caliente y con sal.
En Costa Rica tradicionalmente se cuecen en agua con sal, consomé de pollo y hueso jarrete (existen varias maneras de prepararlos) se consumen con mayonesa o natilla colocándola en el canal del hueso, son conocidos como 'pejibayes'. En tiempos de cosecha se comercializan en casi todo el país y se distribuyen en supermercados, ferias del agricultor, en puestos ambulantes, con frecuencia se venden ya cocinados. Feria Nacional Del Pejibaye que se da en la zona de Tucurrique en la provincia de Cartago se comercializan de muchas maneras, desde harina de pejibaye hasta ceviche, picadillos, helados y hasta licor de pejibaye. También se consume el palmito.
En Ecuador este fruto es bien conocido en la Amazonia del país. Los nativos amazónicos y los colonos (inmigrantes de la Sierra) aprecian mucho este producto llamado chonta. De él se obtiene la chicha de chonta, fabricada con panela y agua hervida. Es una bebida que los campesinos sirven en las mingas de siembra del maíz o simplemente consumida como refresco en cada hogar. También se acostumbra, en tiempos de cosecha, servir el producto cocinado en la mesa en vez de yuca o plátano. Las semillas que son bastante duras, son masticadas por la gente para aprovechar el "coco" que esta posee o tiradas a los perros y a los cerdos para que estos las mastiquen. En el Oriente, las cáscaras de la chonta cocida, la gente usa como alimento para las gallinas o como abono para sus cultivos. La madera de la chonta sin espinos, por su dureza, es usada como postes de chozas, corrales para cerdos (trojes) o como excelente leña para cocinar la comida e incluso para fabricar lanzas. Las buglas, especie de aves oropéndulas, suelen hacer sus nidos colgantes en las puntas de las hojas jóvenes del tronco espinoso de chonta para poner a sus polluelos a salvo de serpientes y felinos. Cuando el fruto está rojo por la madurez, la gente utiliza largas varas con ganchos de metal o palo para desgajar los racimos maduros. Es usual entonces, aparte del ser humano, que muchas aves y animales terrestres se den cita en tiempos de abundancia, a un nutritivo banquete de aceitosa chonta que sin embargo, no es apreciada como debería ser por las autoridades de agricultura. En la costa ecuatoriana también se la prepara con maduro y leche, que es un delicioso manjar, lo suelen tomar en las mañanas como una especie de colada, ya que contiene varios nutrientes y deja satisfecho el estómago.
"...so the world goes round and round
with all you ever knew --
They say the sky high above
is Caribbean blue... " (Enya "Carribean Blue")
or... Portrait of a Man Consuming a Sandwich with a Slipper on his Head.
Strobist: AB800 open behind panel of white faux suede. AB800 with HOBD-W @ 1/4 power camera left. Reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
This delicious, nutritious and attractive vegetable (closely related to lamb's quarters and amaranth) volunteers abundantly and carefree in my garden. It's a good alternative to spinach but (unlike spinach) it's super productive even in hot weather. It can grow to 3 metres. Mature leaves remain edible but are best cooked. The flavour is mild and earthy, nice for mixing with bitter greens and flavourful herbs. In wet weather, the minutely fuzzy, hydrophobic leaves are good subjects for droplet photography.
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As long as you stick to the five main food groups, it's healthy, right? Here we have Dairy and Fruits.
History
The history of the sunflower does not begin in Russia, as some people still think, but in America, in the very distant past, when the Amerindian people discovered that sunflower seeds were very nutritious.
Gloriosa Sunflower
Following the rediscovery of America, this plant traveled to Europe and aroused much curiosity due to its large size. The sunflower then became one of the essential elements of agriculture in Russia. The Sunflower, Helianthus annuus (from the Greek Helios - sun- and Anthos - flower) is one of the 67 species of the genus Helianthus. Linnée baptized it "annuus", that is to say annual, because in his time only this annual species of Helianthus was known.
Botanists consider that there are now a dozen annual species of Helianthus. All other species are lively and some are used as ornamentals (eg Helianthus maximiliani). A single lively species is used as food: it is the Jerusalem artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus, which is sometimes called the Jerusalem artichoke, but is not an artichoke nor is it from Jerusalem. Most of the Helianthus species are native to North America.
There are, however, some species in South America that are scrubby and sometimes arborescent species.
Sunflower Autumn Beauty
Within the Helianthus annuus species, called sunflower, we can consider three different groups:
* Highly branched plants that grow in the wild and sometimes cover thousands of hectares in North America, particularly in western regions.
* Non-branched cultivars, with large inflorescences and thick seeds, developed for centuries for food. The size of the plants can reach 6 meters and the diameter of the inflorescences can reach 80cm. The grains of certain varieties of giant sunflower can reach 2.5cm. of length.
* Cultivars, often highly branched, used for ornamental purposes whose colored flowers are of very varied colors: lemon yellow, brown, red, chestnut ... the flowers can be single or double.
Sunflower Tiger Eye
It is quite difficult to determine exactly the origin of the use of sunflower among the Amerindians as the seeds are much more fragile than the seeds of corn which, once dried, can be preserved for millennia. Researchers have, however, discovered scattered grains at archaeological sites in North and Central America. The stories of the first explorers allow us to appreciate, however, that the sunflower was considered a major plant by many Amerindian peoples.
Medicinally, the Zunis used it for rattlesnake bites; the Dakota used it for chest pains; they integrated the Pawnees into the pregnancy recipes so that the newborn would grow up in a healthy way; the Cochitis used the fresh juice of the stems to heal wounds.
Certain peoples, such as the Hopis, had access to certain cultivars, the violet colored seeds of which provided a dye for their clothing and basketry. On the diet level, sunflower was considered essential and small cookies were prepared that one could nibble to relieve fatigue instantly.
For certain towns the sunflower was therefore the food par excellence of the warrior. At the level of rituals, the sunflower was also an essential element of religious life. The Hopis adorned themselves with hair with sunflowers during religious ceremonies.
It is, for example, an element of the Onondagas cosmogony, along with beans, squash, and various types of corn. Wooden sunflower sculptures have been found at archaeological sites in Arizona.
Recent discoveries (in 2001) of prehistoric traces of sunflower seeds cast doubt on the thesis of the domestication of this plant in North America. Indeed, seeds were discovered in San Andrés, an archaeological site in the Tabasco region of Mexico. These seeds appear to be 1,200 years older than those discovered on the East Coast of the United States. They were dated 4100 years BC.
Sunflower Evening Sun
The sunflower would then come from the Mexican biodiversity, which until now was considered the only food plant of greater importance native to North America.
Delicious and nutritious
CORRECTION: after tasting them I should say they taste weird and or really sour. I washed & tasted six and didn't swallow any. Two of the green ones were so bad that I wouldn't trust them even if I were sharing an attic with Anne Frank.
NOTE" Similar tomatos from other sources have had excellent flavor.
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Bhaturu a traditional fermented and fried bread from Himachal Pradesh. Fermentation adds quality to Bhaturu by way of enhancing their protein content, vitamin and essential amino acids. It has better nutritional value as compared to chapatti/roti prepared from non-fermented dough.
Handsome Mule Deer Buck hanging out in the quiet forest enjoying the last of the nutritious grass he would find before the cold of the Winter of 2013.
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Here's Zoe Bear's overdue update since my last one on the 13th:
Right after Zoe Bear had seen the vet that day and seemed peppy and doing very well, she suddenly lost her appetite. Some very well-intentioned friends recommended that we try giving her goat's milk, which is supposed to be highly nutritious and easily digestible. Indeed, she took to it immediately, and for five days I gave her a total of three tablespoons of it a day. On June 22, when I reported what I thought was good news to the vet, she exclaimed, "Oh, no! Bring her right in for blood tests." I did, and the tests confirmed that Zoe Bear is in end-stage kidney failure, with a ridiculously high BUN of 158 (up from 47 on June 2) and creatinine of 5.2 (up from 3.2). The numbers had been creeping up in the last several months from 45 to 46 to 47, but the vet suspects that the goat's milk caused them to skyrocket in just the five days she was on it. With BUN and creatinine values like those, we were seriously discussing whether she should be put to sleep. I went home and sought the advice of some friends and relatives, then decided I'd at least postpone that action until Monday, the 24th, so I'd have the weekend to say goodbye.
I put her on a diet of just a tablespoon of diced sweet potato every two to three hours, supplemented occasionally by tiny pieces of cantaloupe, and she is, amazingly, doing very well on that. Belying the high diagnostic readings, she is eating, drinking, peeing and pooping well and sometimes even scampering in from the back yard, although most of the time she walks stiffly and gingerly. She came with me to the body shop on the 25th to drop off my car to get repaired after I was rear-ended last week, and she enchanted all the dog lovers there. After getting the rental car, we went to the vet to try to give her palliative hydration to help her feel a little better, but she would not tolerate it. So now she's entirely on her own, with no meds, no supplements, nothing but food and water.
When she's not asleep, she's alert and responsive to my commands, follows me from room to room and barks at the door when someone knocks or rings the bell. I don't know how much time is left. Probably not a lot. She is showing some discomfort, but as long as she's not suffering and as long as she wags her tail, then I'm going to let her live. I have never met a more spunky little animal.
UPDATE 6/29/13: There's really nothing new to report. She's stable, she's eating and holding it down, and she's not losing (and not gaining) weight. She sleeps a lot. She's quite frail, having lost a lot of muscle mass, but she still follows me from room to room, barks when she wants to eat or go out (yes, she's not incontinent), and doesn't seem to be more uncomfortable than she's been for a while, which is amazing considering everything that's wrong with her: anemia, leaking mitral valve causing a heart murmur, horrible arthritis, a huge cyst and a smaller one on her right kidney, and of course the end-stage kidney failure. She was getting tired of just sweet potato, so at the vet's suggestion I added some oatmeal to her diet. She's thus getting the carbs she needs for energy...and tiny pieces of cantaloupe, which she loves and which really energizes her. You should see her waiting to get a piece!
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Tomorrow 26/1/2012 is Australia Day! The official National Day for Australia.
So I wanted to post something Aussie.
Vegemite is a dark brown Australian food paste made from yeast extract. It is a nutritious product very rich in Vit B. The most popular way to eat it is to spread it on toast.
It's an acquired taste, you either love it or hate it.
Vegemite is uniquely Australian and a fair dinkum Aussie icon with 90% of Aussies having a jar in their pantry!